Woody wrote:

Yet as "chief operator" or ANCOIC of NMC MARS on Okinawa, he
remains
woefully ignorant of MARS. I just don't get it.

Uh, hello.... Looks like perfect qualifications for a management
position.

I like the way you think.

I usually try to avoid thought... it makes my head hurt...

You would have been right at home in the Morse Forever camp about 10
years ago.

Can't it be factory refurbished?

Funny thing... the stupid NASA Engineers tried to control the thing with
data bursts.... Yes, data bursts!
Can you believe those anti-CW nazis? We'd already be on Pluto if they'd
controlled it with CW.
So, sadly, no.... due to advanced technology, she's been lost....

Manual telegraphy? C'mon...

I thought they were just to cover the beaches so the
Army doesn't get sand in their boots....

Welp, when the AF took the airplanes away from the Army in 1947...

Was it that late? I would've guess more around the late/end of the war...

I wasn't there, but that's how the story went.

Well anyway, I was just trying to stir up some jarheads with the
beaches/Army thing...

I've got a lot of respect for both. Served with the 2ID at Casey, and
again with the marines and 10th mountain in somalia.

You wanna swap radios or anything?
rb

Probably not, but there is another group, rec.radio.amateur.equipment,
which is a lot like a hamfest. Except the food is better.